The Carthusian Order was founded by St. Bruno in 1084 in a valley of the Diocese of Grenoble. In the 16th century, the Carthusian brothers, driven by the Protestants of Castres, Toulouse came to building a custom large monastery which covered ten acres on the present campus of the University of Social Sciences. Became an arsenal during the Revolution, there remains today only three sides of the arches of the cloister.
church, consecrated in 1612, has a nave divided into 2 parts: one for the faithful, the second for the Carthusians, who had their own entrance, behind the choir. The interior, beautifully decorated, includes frescoes, bas-reliefs, several sets of tables and a magnificent marble altar. To the right of the choir, a tympanum depicting the Last Supper overcomes the door of the chapel of Crucific: it opens with beautiful woodwork in the 17th century.
The organ
The organ was built from 1677 to 1682 by Robert Delauney and enlarged around 1760 by Jean-Esprit Isnard and Joseph Cavaille. During the Revolution, in 1792, he was transferred to the church of the Jacobins Saint-Pierre-des-Chartreux by JB Micot and undergoes transformation by Frederick John Junck in 1854 and Theodore Puget and son in 1880 and 1902, finally Maurice Puget in 1958.
Much of the piping of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was, however, in the organ during its recent renovation (completed 1982): Gerhard factor Grenzing achieved by a beautiful French classical organ respecting the two periods of the organ.
The buffet has been classified a historical monument October 30, 1914 while the instrumental part was the 22 December 1969.
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